For a Limited TIme Only, Ronald Wallace's eighth collection of
poems, is perhaps his darkest and most meditative to date, focusing
his experiences with illness, old age, and mortality; his
father-in-law's death after a long bout with Alzheimer's; his
step-father's death after a painful struggle with esophageal
cancer, his own bout with prostate cancer. These personal
experiences form the core of the first three sections of the book,
but are mediated by theological and philosophical speculations that
find further voice in the character of a \u201cMr. Grim,\u201d
whose angry, self-pitying, gruff, comic, self-depreciating,
nostalgic, defeated, and hopeful riffs on the human condition
provide a bridge to the affirmative, often comic, close. In the
final two sections, in poems in praise of his dentist, his barber,
his wife, his grandparents, the morpheme, Mr. Malaprop, Pluto,
tattoos, hamburger heaven, sex talk, and poetry itself, Wallace
once again proves the resilience of hope and humor in what is, for
him, finally a world of wonders.
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